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Sometimes, reviewing a movie is like trying to grab on to a goldfish in a bowl. It just keeps slipping away, and you can't get your hands around it, and you begin to wonder why on Earth you were trying to capture this goldfish anyway. In the case of the Will Smith heist comedy "Focus," it's as if you suddenly looked down, after repeated attempts, and realized there's no goldfish in that bowl at all, and that you've been trying to grab something that isn't there. "Focus" isn't really a movie, but a star vehicle, in which Smith wears nice clothes and says some slick things in some pretty locations. There's no personality, no chemistry,...

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